Orbital Cloud

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The global war on terror has a new frontthe very edge of outer space.

In the year 2020, Kazumi Kimura, proprietor of shooting star forecast website Meteor News, notices some suspicious orbiting space debris. Rumors spread online that the debris is actually an orbital weapon targeting the International Space Station. Halfway across the world, at NORAD, Staff Sergeant Daryl Freeman begins his own investigation of the threat. At the same time, billionaire entrepreneur Ronnie Smark and his journalist daughter prepare to check in to an orbital hotel as part of a stunt promoting private space tourism. Then Kazumi receives highly sensitive, and potentially explosive, information from a genius Iranian scientist. And so begins an unprecedented international battle against space-based terror that will soon involve the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NORAD, and the CIA.

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"Fujii challenges us to look into the future and consider how the Earth as a whole will confront space exploration and the possibilities of colonization and resource extraction on other planets. Orbital Cloud is the speculative fiction for the twenty-first-century that I look forward to reading."--Strange Horizons

Author Bio

Taiyo Fujii was born in Amami Oshima Islandthat is, between Kyushu and Okinawa. Hes done work for stage design, desktop publishing, exhibition graphic design, and software development.

In 2012, Fujii self-publishedGene Mapper serially in a digital format of his own design, and it became Amazon.co.jps number one Kindle best seller of that year. The novel was revised and republished in both print and digital asGene Mapperfull buildby Hayakawa Publishing in 2013 and was nominated for the Nihon SF Taisho Award and the Seiun Award. His second novel,Orbital Cloud, won the 2014 Nihon SF Taisho Award and the Seiun Award, and took first prize in the Best SF of 2014 in SF Magazine. His recent works include Underground MarketandBigdata Connect.